Homeport Rendezvous/Commodore’s Breakfast 2025

Call this weekend’s back-to-back events whatever you want, but ‘smashing successes’ would do very nicely. What an incredible weekend of camaraderie, hard work, and plenty of laughs.

On Saturday evening, Commodore Veronica Greiner and PC Sheila Tomkowiak co-hosted the annual Homeport Rendezvous. More than 50 people were treated to a lovely evening of food, friendship, and frivolity beneath the Littlest Club tents. As predicted, the weather was perfect. PC Matt Bontomasi and Jen DeWard booted PCs Buzz Young and Dale Scrace from the check-in table and greeted a flood of eager partiers while Veronica and Sheila executed a wonderful event. At the end, a small army of members rolled up their sleeves and pitched in to clean up from the dinner and stage for breakfast the next morning.

And, if Saturday evening’s weather was perfect, Sunday morning’s was even perfecter (if that’s a word?). The Commodore’s Breakfast was a masterpiece of organization by PC Brian Fromm. Especially when it comes to wrangling this bunch! And it was a really big bunch, too. Officially, attendance was 110 people for breakfast. That’s one hundred and ten! And a dozen of those were under the age of five.

Thanks to so many unnamed volunteers (as the list would be quite long!), there was a variety of organized activities for the many kiddos in attendance. So great to see so many young ones…and some long-standing older ones too! The annual PCs photograph, taken by Jen DeWard, featured no fewer than 20 past commodores. This includes PCx2 Don Smolenski — aka ‘Grace’, aka ‘The Baconator’ and in-house Poet Laureate — who did not let a broken hip prevent him from hanging out with his friends. And thanks to PC Dale Scrace for a moving tribute to PC Bill Quinlan.